I know I'm late to the party... but what problem exactly is changing the belt routing going to solve? You wanted the water pump on the other side of the crank/blower combo?

I hate how long that belt is... have you thought about changing to camaro accessories? It will accomplish the same thing with a much shorter belt. I know someone who would buy your alt and PS pulley.

Frankly I'm confused as to why you are having so many issues. I spin my blower faster than you do with an equivalent 2.83 pulley up top.

 

Yea the thought is put it on the side that doesn't have as much tension on it so there isn't as much force on the pulley.

Why mine broke is probably a combination of the Whipple being harder to spin (don't know that for sure) and just general bad luck on my part. How would the Camaro accessories fix that? They are the same offset as the truck.

 

Looks like the water pump is still on the tensioned side of the crank/blower. This is from whipple instructions, but looking at maggie installs on camaros the routing is the same.

 

You would come off the balancer, around the idler, down to the alt, up to the PS, over to an idler, up to blower, down to water pump, over to tensioner, down to balancer.




You would probably need to change the location of the idler next to the PS pump slightly since your blower pulley is in a different location... but it would be a shitload cleaner and a much shorter belt.

Honestly if it were me I would probably just chalk it up to bad luck and put it back together the way its designed and see if you break another water pump before changing the whole thing again.

 

It does look a lot cleaner. What does the conversion cost? The wrap angle on the crank is reduced, but if its not slipping on the blower pulley I wouldn't think it would slip on the crank.

 

Thats my one complaint about it too... but I think youre right.

 

The whipple snout is in the middle of the engine, not over to the side like the jackshaft blowers, so that wouldnt work.

 

Lol, details I guess.

That's a sweet looking setup though Vortec350ss.

 

Drove the truck around the neighborhood today trying to break the waterpump but it held up just fine. Not sure why I am disappointed with that exactly

Looking back over the long it looks like a cylinder on bank 1 is missing a bit at power, so I need to mess with that, probably a plug wire since I was messing with them some.

 

What flavor waterpump is on there and how is the belt routed?